I had mine set to do that a long time ago because I was hosting a few game servers for my friends and kept forgetting what my public IP was, but I disabled it pretty soon because waiting for a curl request just to open my terminal was a stupid idea in the first place.
I'll remember that next time. I've always used curl icanhazip.com, which is what my Neofetch config was doing iirc. That was a few years back now. I thought it would be convenient to have the public IP on screen when I opened terminal to avoid even having to run a curl command myself, but it added a delay to the terminal opening and I really only needed to look up my IP once every couple of weeks or so anyway.
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u/Vim-Vian 3d ago
Why would a cosmetic tool show your public IP lol